Oberfeldarzt

Oberfeldarzt (short: OFArzt or OFA) is a military rank in German speaking armed forces.

It denotes a medical staff officer surgeon or medical staff officer dentist and is comparable in rank to lieutenant colonel (de: Oberstleutnant) or (naval) commander (de: Fregattenkapitän) NATO-Rangcode OF4 in anglophone armed forces.

The piping on shoulder straps shows the Waffenfarbe (en: corps- or troop-function colour), corresponding to the appropriate military service, branch, or special force.

In line to the so-called Reichsbesoldungsordnung (en: Reich's salary order), appendixes to the Salary law of the German Empire (de: Besoldungsgesetz des Deutschen Reiches) of 1927[1] (changes 1937 – 1940), the comparative ranks were as follows: C 5 During wartime, regular assignments of Oberfeldarzt was chief of a, field-, evacuation-, or war hospital (de.

In the Swiss Armed Forces the Oberfeldarzt of the Army is the most senior representative of the medical service of the Heer.